Quotes about Forgiveness

have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest—I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes;

It would be very petty of us who are well and can bear things, to think much of small offences from those who carry a weight of trial.

Maggie actually forgot that she had any special cause of sadness this morning, as she stood on a chair to look at a remarkable series of pictures representing the Prodigal Son in the costume of Sir Charles Grandison, except that, as might have been expected from his defective moral character, he had not, like that accomplished hero, the taste and strength of mind to dispense with a wig.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

The full benefit of forgiveness of sin through the Savior's Atonement begins with repentance and baptism and then expands upon receiving the Holy Ghost.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Let me say before I go any further that I forgive nobody. I wish them all an atrocious life and then the fires and ice of hell and in the execrable generations to come an honoured name.